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When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing
John Kipling went missing in action at the Battle of Loos, in northern France, one hundred years ago, on September 27, 1915. His father was, by then, England’s first Nobel laureate in literature and its foremost poet of empire. The eighteen-year-old lieutenant was likely the most widely searched-for soldier of the First World War.
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